Bendigo Line Chaos suspended during peak hr! http://dlvr.it/TVSmVZ #RailNews #TransportPlanning #VLine #PassengerDisruptions
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Some good problem identification here.
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While I agree that “no one should be priced out of good transport links”, across much of the country the problem isn’t price but availability- if you change buses on your trip or use buses every day £2 each leg is likely to more than the £26 for a weekly season ticket or £90 a month (notwithstanding that that’s a lot more cash to find at once to realise the saving)… and it doesn’t help when the bus network is sparse and low frequency so impractical or impossible to use for your trip.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cdx7z2wwe7qt
#Transport #TransportPlanning #BusFareCap #UKPol #Bus #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #TheWarOnCars
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Vic Gov is reviewing Bendigo's bus network and asking for feedback.
I used to live in Bendigo and have suggested buses every 10 minutes on the main roads from the city centre to suburban centres.
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It is true, there’s no contradiction between a predict and provide approach to roads and not having targets for increased rail patronage. If you have access (sorry about the paywall) and read to the end, you may well find yourself thinking “what about/so much for taking vision-led approaches!”
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Vic Gov Department of Transport and Planning has released its Macaulay Advisory Committee report.
I helped with the transport advice from the city council's perspective and, happily, the report has upheld much of the transport related elements.
However, it's recommended making some of the design and land title issues 'discretionary' (meaning developers can negotiate).
Key matters:
1. The car parking rate for new development in the areas mapped below is proposed to be zero.
2. It's proposed to exempt the land use 'car park' from the zero maximum rate to promote the provision of consolidated public parking facilities.
3. Of car parking that is provided as part of new development, it should be held in common ownership and spaces assigned or leased based on demand for those spaces (rather than locking spaces away on a land title that ends up being unused).
4. A proposed minimum of one bicycle parking space per new dwelling, plus various rates for other uses generally exceeding the default provision.
5. A proposed Development Contributions Plan for the funding and/or delivery of infrastructure including protected bike lanes, open spaces, public realm, etc.
You can read the report here and the council may have more to say on the matter later.
Noting that some of the areas mapped below are subject to existing development or permits and the new proposed controls probably won't impact them.
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New on my website:
Tag-at-a-Glance updated with the May 2026 TAG units and other updates to the appraisal and modelling guidance from #DfT It’s at https://grahamjames.co.uk/tag-at-a-glance/.
(And if you missed my earlier round-up of what’s new in this set of updates, check it out at https://grahamjames.co.uk/whats-new-in-tag-for-may-2026/)
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"The single most effective intervention for increasing cycling among those identifying as interested in cycling but concerned about safety ... is a connected network of physically separated bicycle paths."
"Quietways and low-traffic neighbourhoods provide an essential complementary tool."
"Intersections remain the highest-risk environment for cyclists, and protected intersection designs are critical."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07293682.2026.2654457#abstract
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A quick look at the narrowed bike lanes on Elizabeth Street, Richmond.
The positives. The new smooth surface and removal of road humps from the bike lane are great. You can ride without giving attention to pavement obstacles.
However, the bike lane is now too narrow for social cycling and passing. This was considered to be a luxury item by the populist mayor and low on his hierarchy that puts car parking above.
I think social cycling is very important for normalising bicycle transport from an early age. The simple act of allowing a parent to cycle beside their child with a hand on their back goes a long way.
As a side note, this bike lane plus the buffer would be about the width of a stepped bike lane design from Copenhagen. They don't bother with buffer space there and let you use the whole width between the footpath and parking lane (example linked below). If such a design was made here, you'd keep parking and still allow social cycling.
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Long awaited statutory guidance? I know, let’s publish it on Maundy Thursday and not send the standard email notification that ensures people who need to know find out about it… thanks DfT, really appreciated!
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"The road lobby’s most pervasive denialist framing is that speed does not kill, or that high speeds can be made safe under the right conditions. Nothing could be further from the truth, as a change in average vehicle speed on a given road network has a direct relationship to the rate of fatal crashes. Reality, however, hasn’t slowed the spread of one of the world’s oldest “alternative facts.” In 1948 the head of the British Pedestrian Association noted that the road lobby’s “Big Lie is that ‘Speed is not dangerous.’ Goebbels never invented anything more perfect. Accept this and you accept everything.” He added that when this denialism is challenged, “ the motor propagandists, again following the Nazi technique, temporarily modify it, usually to ‘speed is dangerous only according to the circumstances.’” The fact that a faster moving object is more likely to cause injury than a slower one, is so transparently clear that this denialism boggles the mind."
— Grant Ennis: Dark PR, pp. 30-31
The only thing I disagree with here is that comma in the last sentence.
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Four-way temporary traffic lights on main road into town not working, with traffic already in conflict just after 7 before it starts to build. Called the highways out of hour number. Now, guess who they think is responsible for hunting down the contractor to rectify it and why?
#Transport #TransportPlanning #LocalCouncil #LocalGovernment
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I haven’t read it yet, but FIT’s report on the Peak District “Mini Switzerland” public transport concept is now available (has been for a couple of weeks in fact!) - see https://integratedtransport.org.uk/plans-published-for-mini-switzerland-a-national-demonstrator-to-transform-rural-public-transport
#Transport #TransportPlanning #MiniSwitzerland #FoundationForIntegratedTransport
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Interesting pedestrian crossing design on Little Lonsdale Street at Sutherland Street.
It's unusual to have a pedestrian-priority crossing directly on an intersection but this is what has happened here. A raised threshold has been installed across the entire intersection with zebra linemarking, but reversed so it's perpendicular rather than parallel to the busier street (Little Lonsdale).
This creates a much larger space that is at the same level as the footpath, sending multiple visual signals to drivers. There are other design elements that do this, such as the square cutouts on the approach to the crossing.
I think it could be improved further. It looks like the road could be narrowed more (this is purely me looking at this without a design or turning radius checks). Doing this would also provide more footpath space in a place where it is frequently crowded.
It's an interesting approach to treating intersections where you want to give priority to people walking. Rather than installing separate crossings on each leg, this is another option available.
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People of Nederland or Europe in general,
Does your country publish vehicle turning path diagrams, like the example below from Australia?
I'd like to compare turning path assumptions for similar vehicles across jurisdictions.
Thank you kindly for your assistance.
https://austroads.gov.au/publications/road-design/ap-g34
#Transport #Engineering #TransportEngineering #TransportPlanning #UrbanPlanning
@BicycleDutch @LiorSteinberg @verbeeld @hembrow @GarethDennis @1000millimeter @notjustbikes
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Calling all Shakespeare fans in #transportplanning or economic #appraisal...
Tonight is Twelfth Night.
To celebrate*, I’ve hidden a phrase from that very play🎭 in my blogpost on the latest changes to #TAG. Can you spot it? Comment below if you do.
https://grahamjames.co.uk/whats-new-in-tag-for-december-2025/
* And definitely not as a contrived excuse for a blatant plug for my run-down of all the latest updates to the DfT 's Transport Analysis Guidance. Not at all.
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Good news - please tell me they’re going to be criticised over funding it and stick to their guns by saying that the fuel duty escalator will resume and pay per mile road tax join it.
Rail fares to be frozen in England next year https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwygx71g3n7o
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Wow, Track Investigation Train at Swan Hill and N12 suddenly pops up in Melb Yard!!! http://dlvr.it/TPJGFh #RailNews #TransportPlanning #TransportVictoria #VLine
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Poor “Classic Fleet” availability and no spares left in the yard to cover unscheduled maintenance! http://dlvr.it/TP84mJ #RailNews #TransportPlanning #TransportVictoria #VLine
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Good to hear on the Today programme that Road User Charging is being mooted… but it seems to have been broken via the right wing newspapers so they can have a good run to wind up resistance and prevent it from happening. “Watch this space”.
#Radio4Today #TodayProgramme #TheWarOnCars #TransportPlanning
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The paper explores several real world road networks. (Outside of this I also applied it to the centre-line rail network model).
The associated, albeit beta package, is available here PyPi https://pypi.org/project/parenx/, and more information about the paper the code used to generated it is here https://nptscot.github.io/networkmerge/
Thanks to all hte authors here but especially for @robinlovelace as, without his help and support, this would never have happened -
Happy #TCRPday!
The Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) in the US is a superb, ever-growing, practical resource for public transport planning. TCRP reports draw together the state of the art, and offer practical frameworks and solutions for tackling issues in all aspects of transit.
More on my blog:
https://grahamjames.co.uk/happy-tcrp-day-all-about-the-usas-transit-cooperative-research-program/Delighted to join my US colleagues and friends to celebrate #TCRPday today.
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Electric-powered “tram-style” mass rapid transit “using its own road lane” - I’m sure I’m not the only one saying “please let it be trolley buses!”
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New resource: An at-a-glance summary of the government’s transport objectives in England.
DfT recently updated its list of priorities – with little fanfare. This handy one-page guide sets them out, alongside the wider government objectives and the main linkages between the two levels.
Ideal for those tricky 'policy review' texts…
On my website at https://grahamjames.co.uk/transport-policy/
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An intriguing point at the intersection of #geocomputation and #transportplanning: the intricacy of three-dimensional transport networks necessitates that certain paths from point A to point B become MultiLinestrings when converted to two-dimensional formats. Advice: review any processes that assume all routes are simple linestrings! For reproducible path including (two!) loops, refer to this link: https://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/122968651/#fastest
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Updated: my ready-reference chart for the #AMAT cycling infrastructure categories.
I've updated the valuations to 2023 prices and values, in line with the latest #TAG #databook .
The chart helps with picking the correct DM and DS cycling infrastructure categories when running an active travel scheme through AMAT.
It also covers using these categories as proxy values for other improvements to journey quality.
Find it at https://grahamjames.co.uk/amat/
The previous version using 2010 prices and values is still there as wekk, in case you need it for an older appraisal that's still using those.
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Resident streets are intended to serve mainly residents, calm traffic, be friendly to pedestrians and cyclists and, to a minimum, allow parking for resident cars. Interesting examples of the so-called woonerf (dutch concept of residential streets) from the polish cities of #Gdynia and #Sopot #trafficcalming #streets #streetsforpeople #humanorientedplanning #urbanplanning #transportplanning #cities 👍🤔🙂🇵🇱
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Delighted to announce: the NPT for Scotland was Highly Commended at the Scottish Transport Awards! 🎉 Funded by Transport Scotland and delivered in collaboration with Sustrans, A/B Street and CycleStreets. Congrats to the team! #TransportPlanning #ActiveTravel
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Spotted a press release on the DfT website saying it is great that there might be “38,000 jobs on the horizon as pilots of self-driving vehicles fast-tracked”… however there is no indication of what those jobs might actually be, or what it would mean for the 380,000 taxi and minicab drivers in the UK.
Yet again I feel like there are questions that should be answered before society embraces change for the sake of change. See also: AI, delivery robots, drones, Universal Studios… and of course if I say this too loudly at work I’ll be accused of being partisan - but those who are twice as loud in the opposite direction are not.
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Swan Hill Line fiasco Kings Birthday Weekend – June 2025 http://dlvr.it/TLGFBb #PassengerCareandComfort #RailNews #TransportPlanning #VLine
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The new May 2025 versions of the #TAG units and supporting material are now included in my "TAG at a glance" webpage.
For each unit / workbook / databook / etc, there's a summary of what's new in the current version, and a direct link to the item.
The May 2025 updates (including one bonus mini-change not previously advertised) are highlighted.
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The DfT has now published the May 2025 updates to its Transport Appraisal Guidance #TAG.
The changes include:
▶️New base year
▶️Updated appraisal parameters
▶️Lots of new and updated guidanceHere's my round-up of what's new:
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Now, call me radical, but I’d expect a “modern” bridge design intended to last for 120 years to include lifts or other provision so that everyone can get to/from all the platforms.
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How can #ActivityBasedModels support #ActiveTravel & innovative mobility services? 🚶 🚴 🚌
Webinar of the European Association for Activity-Based Modelling #EAABM on 14 May (14:00–15:30 CET) exploring 2 challenges:
👉building #SyntheticPopulations
👉ensuring #ModelUsability2 case studies
🔹Cambridge AcBM: assessing active travel & equity impacts (Laurence Chittock)
🔹Hamburg mobiTopp: supporting MOIA’s ride-pooling operations (Gabriel Wilkes) -
I’ve been reading Lynn Sloman’s “Car Sick” and though 20 years old it still has a lot of relevance.
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Join me at the University of Leeds for my inaugural lecture celebrating my promotion to Professor of Transport Data Science! I'm excited to invite colleagues and data enthusiasts on Thursday, 8th May 2025, at 4:30 PM. Drinks reception at 4:00 PM/ A ‘Hackathon’ will precede the lecture in ITS room 1.11, with details to follow. Get tickets at https://www.ticketsource.us/whats-on/leeds/esther-simpson-building-lt-1-01/data-science-for-future-proof-transport-planning-inaugural-lecture-by-professor-robin-lovelace/2025-05-08/16:30/t-avnjvar. Excited to celebrate with you all! #DataScience #TransportPlanning #Leeds #InauguralLecture
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I finished reading this a few hours ago; “Feminist City” by Leslie Kern.
It is a wide ranging book that sets out key issues around the way that both spaces and society are structured and how they relate to one another. If you’re involved in town planning or transport planning, you should read this, and try to digest and act on it. Men in particular.
https://www.librarything.com/work/book/279615265
#BooksReadIn2025 #Reading #Books #Bookstodon #UrbanPlanning #TownPlanning #TransportPlanning
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I had a letter from the DVLA today saying my car tax is now £351.75.
Almost a pound a day, before insurance, servicing, MOT etc & before moving an inch. But given the externalities of using it it is still underpriced.
Unfortunately I can’t discharge my personal/family responsibilities & work duties without the bloody thing, though I’d ditch it tomorrow if I could.
We really need to change the transport system & how society works
#CarTax #ForcedCarUse #BanCars #TransportPlanning #Transport
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Sometimes change takes a long time.
When I was a councillor I fought for a safe pedestrian and bike crossing on Balwyn Road between Hislop Park and Gordon Barnard Reserve for many years. This was and still is a vital link through a chain of linear parks for access to schools, recreation facilities, homes and much more.
More than a decade later I'm delighted to see that this new signalised crossing behind me has finally been installed.
There were many people involved in getting this done, including local parents and council officers. My thanks goes to everyone who supported it.
We overcame local opposition, funding hurdles and approval barriers and succeeded in the end. Looking forward to using it once the power is turned on!
#Melbourne #Politics #Transport #TransportPlanning #Boroondara
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Periodically some people call for cyclists to pay “road tax” saying that they contribute to wear on the roads etc. so should pay towards maintenance.
As I understand it the amount of wear a vehicle causes varies based on the fourth power of the axle weight.
So if I’ve got my sums right, having a charge of a pound a month for a bicycle, and taxing motorists in direct proportion to difference in damage done to road could look something like this…